After a month-plus of meaningless games, there’s only one more exhibition game left before the games start to count. Tonight’s game felt more like a real game, though: played in Petco Park (oh publicly-available Statcast data, how I have missed you), in front of a sizable crowd of fans at a time other than a matinee...it felt more like a real game than those dreamy, dozy early-spring games, and yet no less relaxing, as the Mariners cruised to a 4-1 victory.
Bryce Miller understood the assignment, going four innings and giving up just one run. He didn’t quite have a handle on his secondary pitches, walking three while striking out just two, but ran his fastball up to 98 (!